Tomoko Fuse is undeniably a genius, her work with exacting spiral forms unequalled:
This is her “Nautilus”, a lovely recursive form that, after the pre-creasing, almost folds itself.
Elegant and graceful curve, perfectly planned pleats and a tidy shell end make this model a keeper for sheer geometric beauty alone.
I want to pretend that I go tthis first try – truth is I folded a set of folds wrong way round first go (bloody Japanese instructions), but restarted because I wanted to make the model (so sue me)
Will be folding this again – would love to fold this in large format, will see how I go. really happy with this – who said geometric sequences were not beautiful (it is just mathematicians that wring the joy out of them :P)
OMG OMG OMG please please please give instruction links! Ohh I want to make that soo bad!!!
Instructions please.
if you are able to see the beauty in this nautilus, believe it or not, you are just appreciating a tiny expression of mathematics. mathematical concepts underlie everything in our universum: there is nothing, nothing, that exists or can exist and nothing humankind can imagine without mathematics fundamenting it. that includes as well everything that has yet to be imagined and even things that nobody will ever be able to fathom let alone grasp.
now: there are multiple reasons for people not liking mathematics, from difficulties to learn it, for who says that we all have the same capacity in every possible field, followed by an enormously large range of different combinations of nuanced problems including inadecuate teachers who are not able to appreciate what they are teaching or don’t like it, or are just teaching something they do not understand themselves.
i merely wonder sometimes…